# The Maid of Buttermere

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- Book: [The Maid of Buttermere](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg/the-maid-of-buttermere) ([The Maid of Buttermere.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg/the-maid-of-buttermere.md))
- Authors: [Melvyn Bragg](https://www.bookquiver.com/melvyn-bragg)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4894-258-5
- Published: 2012-06-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'This is historical fiction with a human face' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'A vivid and erudite tour de force' Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger 'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria' Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark Set in the Lake District in the early nineteenth century, this is a riveting story of love and deception, and a scandal that shook the entire nation.